Childhood Hero Gifts

'This is my toughest soldier -- He's been through Mom's vacuum cleaner eight times!'

Frank moonlights as a Grill Sergeant.

'Call for you on the cream corn line.'

'I don't know what 'peer pressure' is, but it makes a GREAT excuse!'

Babies vs. Dogs

"Soon you'll be sucking your thumb AND tying your shoes...they call it multitasking."

Mother feeds messy child with extra long spoon.

'I've never opened her up on the highway, but I get great mileage in the city!'

'Does this get me a purple heart?'

'Sometimes I wish we'd never told him he was adopted.'

"Being the smartest girl in third grade is going to Melinda's head."

'We're doing the right thing, Bob, Let Andy solve problems with bullies at school his own way,,,'

Statue of Liberty from the Staten Island Ferry trip.

"I've always wanted to live on a lake so I can go boating and fishing. Since we don't live on a lake, I thought I'd make my own."

"The one time in our lives when it's acceptable to run around naked, but they dress us up like L. L. Bean catalog."

"It turns out I just wasted the whole morning networking with a dog."

'You put it down for five seconds. I get it now.'

"Every time I tie my shoes, the laces come undone...I think it's a conspiracy!"

"There's my very first school - where I learned how to hug."

"It's childhood. Your child has childhood."

'Billy takes his jungle gym seriously!'

'Well, Jimmy, it's your turn to go get it.'

Emergency Slide Height Limit.

"He's retreated into nationalism."

'Your imagination was so powerful he became real. It happens to me all the time.'

"It's different when they're your own."

"If you wear these caps backwards, they keep the sun out of your eyes."

Planner at work.

Introducing Peter's Cousin - Murray Pan - The Boy Who Refused To Stay A Child

A pediatrician with children hanging off his arms

It had been a good life, filled with passion and joy, tender bonds, and finally one irretrievable error.

"My family's been working this land for at least 400 years...!"

"No, son, there's no severance package."

Knight of the sandcastle.

'He followed me home. Can I keep him if I promise to take care of him?'